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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS ITAL/4
TitleVenice, St George of Alga Canons: Institutes
Date15th century
DescriptionUnbound manuscript volume, 15th century, containing institutes of a congregation of canons. Comprised of a prologue, 15 institutes, and a commentary after each institute in one or more chapters, 37 in all. The name of the congregation is not given, but institutes are apparently those of the canons of St George in Alga, Venice. Folio 1 bears a later table of the chapters. Folios 13v-14v are blank.
Extent14 leaves
AdminHistoryWritten in Italy, perhaps in Venice. The congregation of the canons regular of St George in Alga, Venice, to which the manuscript apparently relates, received its concession from Boniface IX in 1404, and confirmation from Gregory XII in 1407.
CustodialHistoryWith the stamp of Ercoli Sieva.
AcquisitionPurchased from Bernard Rosenthal in New York in 1959.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsN R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries , i (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNoteProbably unpublished.
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